Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving Justice on the Supreme Court. When he joined the bench, on October 19, 1991, the Soviet Union was a country, Hillary Clinton was Arkansas's First Lady, and Donald Trump had recently declared the first of his…

“Where are our helmets?” my daughter Harper asked. We were standing outside a cycle shop in the Dutch city of Delft, along with Harper's older sister, Lyra, and my wife, Alia. “We didn't buy any,” I replied. Along the…

It all started on a weekend away for the Booksluts, a Sydney book club with the motto “We'll read anything.” Six of the group's eight regular members were discussing “ Crime and Punishment,” and talking about the club's…

Broadcast: Sunday 15 September 2019 8:05AM (view full episode) Surf life savers hold an almost mythical status as Australian heroes who risk their lives to save others. But these dedicated volunteers say they're being silenced by their own…

It may be impossible to convey to people who weren't percipient in the early nineteen-sixties the profound, exulting shock that Robert Frank's “ The Americans ” delivered to me, among many others, at the time of its release. The book…